Impact of views about knowledge and workplace relationships on tacit knowledge sharing

Santhi Perumal and Shyam Sreekumaran Nair

Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 2022, vol. 20, issue 3, 410-421

Abstract: Tacit Knowledge Sharing (TKS) becomes vital for new knowledge creation. Knowledge creation process encourages the view of knowledge as a public good while knowledge appropriation process encourages knowledge to be viewed as a private good. This paper studies the impact of these views about knowledge on TKS. Based on social interdependency theory, four workplace relationships were identified for studying TKS. “Knowledge as a public good” and “knowledge as a private good” were used as indicator variables. Using OLS regression, the four proposed models were tested. Data for the study was obtained from a questionnaire-based survey of 184 research students. The results revealed “knowledge as non-exclusive” to be a positive predictor of TKS. Viewing knowledge as a private good had a negative relationship with TKS. Implications for research and practitioners are discussed.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/14778238.2021.1947756

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